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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

FOR NO GOOD REASON: LUBITSCH NOW!

Though it does not please me that Ernst Lubitsch – who, despite his German lineage, is carved into the Mount Rushmore of American sound comedy alongside Howard Hawks, Preston Sturges and Groucho Marx – is little more than a footnote in today’s popular culture, I can at least excuse it as an unavoidable product of … Continue reading

THE PROGNOSTICATOR – JULY 2007

First off, I apologize for the delay. The holiday week and a few other unforeseen complications got in the way of our prognostication this month. But we’re not about to let it go, since July is bursting with films, especially if you live in an area fed by a decent indie cinema. There’s the big … Continue reading

DELLAMORTE’S BO WRAP – 7/6/07

# Title the Title! Weekend the Total! Per the Screen! Film the Total! 1 Transformers $67,600,000 $16,853 $152,500,000 2 Ratatouille $29,029,000 (-38.3%) $7,367 $109,546,000 3 Live Freebreeze or Dye Hard $17,400,000 (-47.9%) $5,101 $84,160,000 4 License to Wed $10,400,000 $3,993 $17,816,000 5 Evan Almighty $8,114,000 (-46.4%) $2,345 $78,101,000 6 1408 $7,140,000 (-33.0%) $2,713 $53,789,000 7 … Continue reading

ROTE, BABY, ROTE

Here’s a fun dilemma! I don’t want to break embargo on Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, Gone, Baby, Gone (saw it a couple of weeks ago for long-lead), but I also don’t want to run a link to its just-released theatrical trailer without offering this caveat: what Miramax is selling ain’t the movie by a long … Continue reading

LUST FOR LEE

I love Ang Lee, but I would never try to sell his movies on the power of their lush, romantic imagery; unlike the work of his Taiwanese contemporaries, Hou Hsiao-hsien and the recently deceased Edward Yang (and I’m going off the judgement calls of my peers on the latter, since I’ve only seen Yi Yi), … Continue reading

J.J. ABRAMS IS LEAVING ME PUZZLED

The viral marketing campaign for the J.J. Abrams-produced monster flick that was trailered before Transformers has gotten into full swing. It started small with the official site: http://www.1-18-08.com. As Russ previously reported, there’s nothing there but a teaser image, and if you stop there, this doesn’t seem like much of a campaign. But then word … Continue reading

ZAK PENN: NEXT MISSION

This doesn’t do much for the "leave it the fuck alone" camp, but it’s certainly better than the previous alternative… I think. According to Variety, Zak Penn has pulled rewriting duty on Joel Silver’s The Dirty Dozen remake, which will hopefully be a page one overhaul since Scott Rosenberg’s first pass was… lacking. Let’s see… … Continue reading

J.J. ABRAMS’ SECRET IS SITE-ED

The coolest thing about Transformers was the teaser for Cloverfield. Or the Untitled J. J. Abrams Project. Or, as the title may now actually be, 1-18-08. A website bearing that name and URL (1-18-08.com) has surfaced featuring only a still from the teaser watermarked with the date. And Paramount’s marketers aren’t as geek-friendly as Warner … Continue reading